TopicUpdated Nov 6, 2026Issue #00671 stories today
Open-weights AI
Open-weights and open-source model releases, Hugging Face trends, local models and self-hosting. 71 stories in today’s issue from 16 outlets, ranked by heat.
Chris Alexiuk has a simple rule about open source AI: If you believe in it, be loud about it. “We should be shouting about this technology from the rooftops,” said Alexiuk, a Toronto-based senior product research engineer in deep learning at NVIDIA who…
I’m an MSc CS student with a background in 3D computer vision, trying to figure out how to build visibility and credibility in the AI/ML community. I’ve been thinking about contributing to established open source…
World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.
Handbook: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/moe-blogpost Hello, I'm Nouamane, one of the authors. I'm at Hugging Face and also worked on the Ultra-Scale and Smol Training Playbooks, if you've read those. This…
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want. The article Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280…
Kimi K3.1 and Tencent’s Hy4 are both gutting out cybersecurity, reverse engineering, and vulnerability-patching capabilities from their open-source models. This is becoming a really bad pattern across these latest…
Model Context Protocol server for Roblox Studio. Connect AI assistants (Claude, Cursor) to read object trees, edit scripts, and run playtests safely. Open-source and lightweight
Make webcam hand games in the browser, or point your coding agent here and have it make one. MediaPipe hand tracking + a gesture engine + a starter game + a playbook.
Uni-robot-agent enables open-weight robot-use agents to surpass proprietary models in zero-shot manipulation and suggests joint development of four core capabilities for future training.
Ricursive Intelligence just released Ripple-65B Preview . Ripple-65B Preview is a 65B dense open-weight model from Ricursive, pretrained from scratch for agentic coding. It is a general-purpose variant of the proprietary model behind Ricursive’s AI chip…
闪猫造物Flashduck — an open-source ESP32-S3 desktop duck robot with six servos, a single animated eye, wide-stance walking and two interaction systems (voice assistant / DuckClaw local agent).
NorthCUA scales computer-use agents via an experience flywheel, recursive self-improvement, staged learning, and reinforcement learning to achieve state-of-the-art open-source GUI and web interaction results.
Hey guys, just published a preprint on arXiv proposing a framework we call Skillware to handle agent reliability. (arXiv:2611.07652v1) The main idea is that instead of using prompt engineering to get models to write…
One app for every document. Built for AI agents. An open-source desktop office suite written in Rust: documents, spreadsheets, slides, PDF, Markdown, code and rich text, opened, edited and saved in one row of file tabs. The same binary is…
Curated list of self-hosted open-source AI: local LLMs, chat UIs, agents, MCP servers, RAG, speech and image generation. Health-checked weekly, dead projects removed automatically.
I'm the developer of Kokon, a local photo editor around Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo (on stable-diffusion.cpp, and on its own engine on Macs). I posted it here a few weeks ago. 0.12 adds a Layers lab: click objects in any…